Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup.

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

The total solar eclipse has passed, but there's more to see in the sky. The "devil comet" is passing ... The comet will make its closest approach to Earth on June 2, when it will be about 144 ...

From Earth, if the orbits line up just right, we can see multiple planets in our night sky at the same time. In rare events, all the planets will line up such that they all appear in our night sky ...

The first two weeks of March provide a great opportunity to sight four bright naked-eye planets in the early evening sky. Low toward ... dim as it pulls away from Earth. The only planet that ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

Mars SKY AT Viewed from above the solar system, the seven planets will fall within Earth’s line of sight at sunset, and will not be obscured by the sun. Viewed from above the solar system ...

The ecliptic is also the reason that we on Earth sometimes observe planets appearing to approach closely to each other in the sky "while they ... reaches its greatest separation from the sun.

because of their separate motions. But in February, the planets are all on the same side of the sun from our perspective on Earth, causing them to appear together in the night sky. “This ...